Well for my birthday last month my parents bought me a hand blender/chopper!!! Very exciting stuff. It’s portable (for moving house) and comes with everything you need! Well anyway I decided that now is the time to use up my homemade stock and make some soup!

After great deliberation (and the huge bag of ‘on offer’ carrots in the fridge) I chose carrot soup! This is the first proper soup I’ve ever made and also the first thing I’ve ever used homemade stock in.

Ingredients:

500ml vegetable stock

400ml other stock (chicken in my case)

5+ small-medium carrots

2 medium potatoes

2 cloves garlic

half a can of butterbeans, draines

a handful of rice (uncooked)

Makes: 4 bowls

Defrost the stock if homemade and frozen. You can also prepare cube stock now.